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coming a little to myfelf I faid. For God''s Sake don^t
fnurder me, feeing 1 don't refifl ; upon which one took
hold of my Hand, and another took hold of my Col-
lar, and were going to lift me up, when I felt fomething
go thro' the Calf of my Leg, and turning my Head, I
faw a rufty narrow Sword which was thrull into vay
right Foot quite to the Bone, and juil then they lifted
me up, but being not able to ftand, I h^d like to have
fell down again, if they had not fupported me, and
whilfl I flood I faw the Sword which had done me the
Injury, in the Hands of a Man called Patrick, who
was a Servant to Brenver, and he thruft it at me again
as I flood, but being aware of it, I turn'd myfelf a
little, and bore the Sword away with my Hand, fo
that it did not enter, but only graz'd along, of which
there reniain'd a Scar near iix Inches long, and he
made two more Thrufts, which both went thro' my
Coat Sleeve, but did me no other Damage ; and then
the People who were about me wou'd not let him do it
any more, but carry'd me into a Houfe, where I fat
down and undid my Stocking, and holding the Calf of
my Leg hard with my Hand, the Blood fpun out as
freely as it does when a Man is let Blood in the Arm ;
fo when I had let it bleed as long as I thought proper,
I bound my Handkerchief round it, and they carry'd
me to the Ccmptcr, where I lay with my Wounds bleed-
ing till about Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, and then
they took m.e befoi'e Sir William Billers, who commit-
ted me to Kevjgate, and then I had my Wounds dreft
as well as they could in that Place, and lay till Seflions,
which was five Weeks from the Time of my cominw
firft.
At the Seflions I was arraign'd- and try'd, and feve-
ral Things were produced in Court, TO'K. five pick-
Locks, two Spikes, a quarter of a Pound of Wax Can-
dle, a pair of long Scifiars, which I had about me when
I vi'as taken, and laftly, the Pin of the Window which
one ~ a Fellow fwore, he took out of my
Pocket j but I verilv believe he convey'd it there him-
fclf,